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The new exhibition, Committed to Memory, celebrating the 25th anniversary of John Darwell's first show, is at Tullie House, Carlisle, until 1st July 2007.

It must have taken months of intense scrutiny of contact sheets and patience trawling through John Darwell's huge archive from 1983 to 2007 to produce this carefully selected exhibition. But what has resulted is a show which gives you a taste of Darwell's oeuvre, with over 20 projects represented ranging from social documentary photography to highly personal investigations of illness and depression.

The exhibition is well laid out, leading the visitor through the early black and white images of industrial British landscapes to the more recent large scale colour images. For one thing it shows how display methods have changed - the framed black and white images immediately feel like they are from a past era (which indeed they are) when compared with the photo collage installations pinned to the wall and the huge colour prints suspended from the ceiling.

Darwell is well known for his powerful series showing the effects of foot and mouth disease in Cumbria and the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor disaster. But highlights for me were the unexpected American Desert States landscapes with their highly saturated colour and the After Schwitters series of abstracted landscapes taken on the former site of the German artist's barn in the Lake District. Overall the exhibition demonstrates the importance of Darwell in British photography and his ongoing commitment to documenting social, industrial and environmental change.

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Alex Brown (Artsadmin) and Tilly Hogrebe (Bow Arts) have created thisartists' survey as part of a research programme called Accelerator, led by Julie’s Bicycle, on advanced sustainability in the arts and cultural sector.

Working with organisations, photographers, community groups, academics and curators from across the country, Open Eye Gallery are building a new network to discuss and accelerate the practice of socially engaged photography. As part of the new creation of the network a survey has been created in-order establish the level and types of interest for a new socially engaged photography network (SEPN).

The Royal Academy of Arts, Tate and Field Editions are delighted to launch NFP Editions at EXPO CHICAGO, 27–30 September 2018. A new collaboration, NFP Editions will represent the best in accessibly-priced, contemporary, limited edition prints from leading London and UK-based public institutions, bringing them to an international audience.

Joshua Turner, a Fine Art Photographer based in Manchester and recent graduate from BA Photography at the University of Salford, is campaigning to raise funds to publish his latest body of work as a photobook.

Redeye is delighted to announce the launch of the new Autumn/Winter programme. Beginning in September 2018 and stretching until the end of March 2019, there are a whole host of exciting events in store for Redeye members and non-members alike.